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but david axelrod said what we said. people believe it was successful in the stand point of brucing mitt romney and humanizing him. he came out of tampa as a more broader and more humanized figure if we can use that word. >> chris: you can use. >> that was a theme of what they are doing. >> people think that the guy is a armadillo . but one other republicans are doing with the speakers leading up to romney. you saw it in christie and governors and paul ryan. to dissolutionment of whether thengs can be fixed. it is greater than what we have seen. remember we can do we can do which is striking. i think that is a burden on them. if you ask people to make a switch tolt party that you voted out of power. you have to believe that the part and country can turn it around. >> chris: jeff, you brought up something in the last session. we had an argument about this in the commercial. that's what we do. friday, the job's report comes out for august and this is one of the last before the election will that muffle the bounce for the d
but david axelrod said what we said. people believe it was successful in the stand point of brucing mitt romney and humanizing him. he came out of tampa as a more broader and more humanized figure if we can use that word. >> chris: you can use. >> that was a theme of what they are doing. >> people think that the guy is a armadillo . but one other republicans are doing with the speakers leading up to romney. you saw it in christie and governors and paul ryan. to dissolutionment...
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going as david axelrod said, right down the wire. >> absolutely. as axe said in your segment earlier, everyone knew that this was going to be a close election. the economy has been in trouble for so long. but, at the same time, what we have seen in some of the polling and i don't live by week by week, day by day polling, and no one should, because it is over the long haul, but when you break open that polling, what you see is, people respond to the president because they believe he gets their concerns. he understands their daily lives. and also understand, we're holding even in this very, very bad economy. >> george, we have two unemployment reports coming up. on october 5th and one november 2nd. and we als have three presidential debates. anything can happen. it's still very close. romney's unfavorables are higher than his favorables. at this time in a presidential race, i can't remember a presidential candidate's unfavorables with this high. >> ann, i was talking about the polls in the big battleground states, they're going to determine this race
going as david axelrod said, right down the wire. >> absolutely. as axe said in your segment earlier, everyone knew that this was going to be a close election. the economy has been in trouble for so long. but, at the same time, what we have seen in some of the polling and i don't live by week by week, day by day polling, and no one should, because it is over the long haul, but when you break open that polling, what you see is, people respond to the president because they believe he gets...
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in the short-term, the chicago head quarters, david axelrod said what he said. people believe it would be a successful convention from the stand point of humanizing him. i think he came out of tampa as a more broader more humanized figure if we can use that word humanized. >> chris: you can use it. >> i'm kind of sick of that word humanized but that was the theme of what they were doing. >> i'm sick of humanized, too. like people think he he is an armadillo or something. you saw you this in cristie and the governors that spoke and heard this in paul ryan to express the disillusionment that we have of whether things can be fixed. remember the line ryan repeated we can do this. we can do this which is striking. and i think that was something that they felt that was a burden on them because if you are going to ask people to make the big switch to the party that they just voted out of power a few years ago you have to believe that that party and the country can turn this all around. >> chris: i want to go back jeff to something that you brought up in the last segmen
in the short-term, the chicago head quarters, david axelrod said what he said. people believe it would be a successful convention from the stand point of humanizing him. i think he came out of tampa as a more broader more humanized figure if we can use that word humanized. >> chris: you can use it. >> i'm kind of sick of that word humanized but that was the theme of what they were doing. >> i'm sick of humanized, too. like people think he he is an armadillo or something. you...
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and david axelrod. >>> our powerhouse roundtable. squaring off, nicolle wallace, ann court, robert reich and jorge ramos. >>> hello again. with just over six weeks to go, it's safe to say that mitt romney can't afford another one like his last. to electrical problem that grounded ann romney's plane friday night, nothing seemed to go right. running mate paul ryan fielded a question from griping from republican insiders. >> there will always be critics. but guess what, i have rarely seen a moment with the man in the moment have met so well. >> president obama pounded away at romney's private thoughts on that 47% in wisconsin. >> we can't get very far if we're just writing off half the country. as a bunch of victims. or presume that somehow they want to be dependent on government or don't want to take responsibility for their own lives. >> and with that, let's get right to our headliners david axelrod and the reince priebus. reince, let me begin with you. thank you. president obama, you saw him yesterday, voters are going to be hearing
and david axelrod. >>> our powerhouse roundtable. squaring off, nicolle wallace, ann court, robert reich and jorge ramos. >>> hello again. with just over six weeks to go, it's safe to say that mitt romney can't afford another one like his last. to electrical problem that grounded ann romney's plane friday night, nothing seemed to go right. running mate paul ryan fielded a question from griping from republican insiders. >> there will always be critics. but guess what, i...
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call or click today. [ grunting ] >>> i am joined by a senior advisor david axelrod. i want to pick up on what john mccain and i were talking about. there's back and forth now about why did this administration -- why did it take them until friday after a september 11th attack in libya to come to the conclusion that it was premeditated and that it was terrorist-involved. john mccain said it doesn't pass the smell test or it's willful ignorance to think that they didn't know before this what was going on. your reaction? >> well, first of all, candy, as you know, the president called it an act of terror the day after it happened, but when you're the responsible party, when you're the administration and you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community believes, this was -- this is being thoroughly investigated. >> first they said it wasn't planned, it was part of this tape. >> as a director of national intelligence said on friday, that was the original information that was given to us. what we don't need is a president or administratio
call or click today. [ grunting ] >>> i am joined by a senior advisor david axelrod. i want to pick up on what john mccain and i were talking about. there's back and forth now about why did this administration -- why did it take them until friday after a september 11th attack in libya to come to the conclusion that it was premeditated and that it was terrorist-involved. john mccain said it doesn't pass the smell test or it's willful ignorance to think that they didn't know before this...
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campaign senior strategist david axelrod is talking exclusively to chris wallace. stick around because we will be back with more news. america's news headquarters a special hour at
campaign senior strategist david axelrod is talking exclusively to chris wallace. stick around because we will be back with more news. america's news headquarters a special hour at
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we'll talk with senior obama campaign advisor david axelrod about that. >>> plus, slew of new battleground polls confirm the president's lead, and it means we have a new battleground map. here's a hint. the toss-ups are narrowing and romney's path to 270 is as well. >>> lashing out over libya. after hedging for days, the white house is now calling the attack that killed the am an act of terrorism. was politics behind that delay? >>> and what would have happened if al gore had defeated george w. bush in the disputed election of 2000? would 9/11 have happened? would we have plunged into a recession? we're taking a deep dive into a fascinating alternate universe that jeff greenfield wrote about. >>> but we start with the normal course of events. good morning from washington. it is friday, september 21st, 2012. this is "the daily rundown," i'm chuck todd. >>> mitt romney's week started with a plan for new ads and a newly focused message. that plan quick le went out the window. after a hectic week, all the soun and fury boils down to more missed opportunities for the romney campaign. less than
we'll talk with senior obama campaign advisor david axelrod about that. >>> plus, slew of new battleground polls confirm the president's lead, and it means we have a new battleground map. here's a hint. the toss-ups are narrowing and romney's path to 270 is as well. >>> lashing out over libya. after hedging for days, the white house is now calling the attack that killed the am an act of terrorism. was politics behind that delay? >>> and what would have happened if al...
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look, david axelrod and -- and david plouffe -- the chicago-operation campaign. they have done millions of dollars of focus groups with these people. what we did was duplicate. they know-- >>> they know how bad it is. >> this is not, as i keep saying, their worst nightmare is to have those voters saying they are disillusioned, not that he is a socialist, but to say, he promised us, we're hurting. he is not helping us. >> sean: you agree that the obama campaign knows this is how i. by the way, seeing the film, that's why there is no vacation this year. that's why there is no soaring rhetoric. we don't upon to hear rhetoric. we want to see action. >> sean: how do you explain the negativity? >> this is the danger, i think, for him, they have decided because i was involved in the campaign in 1980, trying to say the other guy is worse. that's another chapter of my life. but this is -- the negativity he's doing to divide, you see -- you will hear these people on how they feel about the division of the count tree -- it works against what he was. that's the danger for hi
look, david axelrod and -- and david plouffe -- the chicago-operation campaign. they have done millions of dollars of focus groups with these people. what we did was duplicate. they know-- >>> they know how bad it is. >> this is not, as i keep saying, their worst nightmare is to have those voters saying they are disillusioned, not that he is a socialist, but to say, he promised us, we're hurting. he is not helping us. >> sean: you agree that the obama campaign knows this is...
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. >> david axelrod told us a few minutes ago there will be new elements in the speech but the president's basic argument will remain the same. a laundry list of sorts like a state of the union and i'm told this is going to be a surprisingly short speech, at least for the president. the goal is to have it shorter than it was four years ago, shorter than president bush's in 2004 and we do know it will be shorter than bill clinton's from last night. in fact, let's move on to that. four years ago, barack obama was trying to turn the page on the clintons and the bushes. fast forward to last night when the president wanted the country to see him hug bill clinton. last night's 48-minute speech was classic clinton, smart, not always sticking to script, less of a speech and more of a story in traditional clinton style on paper. looked far less effective than it did delivered in person. clinton was the ultimate character witness, fact checker, one man rebuttal machine rolled into one. >> we left him a total mess. he hadn't cleaned it up fast enough to fire him and put us back in. the claim that pre
. >> david axelrod told us a few minutes ago there will be new elements in the speech but the president's basic argument will remain the same. a laundry list of sorts like a state of the union and i'm told this is going to be a surprisingly short speech, at least for the president. the goal is to have it shorter than it was four years ago, shorter than president bush's in 2004 and we do know it will be shorter than bill clinton's from last night. in fact, let's move on to that. four years...
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david axelrod was on "morning joe" talking about social security reform and said we'll wait and see. >> this is david axelrod going back and forth with mark halperin on social security. >> what's his proposal? >> mark, i'll tell you what, when you get elected to the united states senate and sit at that table we'll have -- this is not the time to -- we're not going to have that discussion right now. unless the congress wants to sit at a table and say okay, we're ready to move on a balanced approach to this. >> okay. this is -- the showdown here, the specific -- the showdown on specifics theoretically will happen on the debate stage. look at both that clip and the angels in the policy or wherever the angels and devils are, and david axelrod suggesting that mark halperin needs to be a senator before the president outlines his plan, someone will have to get specific on the national stage. >> obama in front of the aarp forum suggested he could raise the caps on the taxes that go to social security. he did put out a specific. i'm not sure why david didn't go for that there. during the deba
david axelrod was on "morning joe" talking about social security reform and said we'll wait and see. >> this is david axelrod going back and forth with mark halperin on social security. >> what's his proposal? >> mark, i'll tell you what, when you get elected to the united states senate and sit at that table we'll have -- this is not the time to -- we're not going to have that discussion right now. unless the congress wants to sit at a table and say okay, we're ready...
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it's not often that you are siding with david axelrod. it's rare that you are quoted by him. i can't count the number of e-mails that came in after your comment that mitt romney was stupid and arrogant on the 47%. thoughts? >> well, i'm flattered, i guess. i'm amused that david axelrod agrees with me occasionally and the stop clock is right twice a day. his agreement is one of the twice a day occasion. stupid statement by romney. i still think it really did, it did injustice to conservatives in which believe so strongly in opportunist society and standing for middle america. that's the kind of conservatism i came to washington to be part of in the reagan administration with bill bennett and jack kemp. mitt romney just so mischaracterized that and made it seem as if we're depending the 53% of the taxpayers against those 47% who don't pay any income tax. they're all victims. >> bret: so is he moving past it? one-day deal? >> of course. >> bret: or is it lingering? in your mind -- >> not lingering in my mind. >> bret: clearly it is. >> no. you asked me about it and i answered it
it's not often that you are siding with david axelrod. it's rare that you are quoted by him. i can't count the number of e-mails that came in after your comment that mitt romney was stupid and arrogant on the 47%. thoughts? >> well, i'm flattered, i guess. i'm amused that david axelrod agrees with me occasionally and the stop clock is right twice a day. his agreement is one of the twice a day occasion. stupid statement by romney. i still think it really did, it did injustice to...
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chris wallace with that question, to david axelrod, here's what he says. >> he spoke for 45 minutes and never really offered any, any real ideas, for how to move the economy forward, for how to lift the middle class, and, in that sense i think his convention was a terrible failure. ♪ [ male announcer ] extreme environments can cause a spontaneous change in dna, resulting in unexpected power and agility. introducing the all-new, all-powerful gator rsx 850i. sixty-two horsepower, a fully independent multilink suspension and a top speed of 53 miles per hour. it's a whole new species of gator. see just how much the gator has evolved at johndee.com/gator. >> martha let's get you news outside of the political scene, a freight train derailment making a big mess in chicago. the csx rail spokesperson said one freight train slammed into the back of another early this morning and several cars jumped the rails, damaging a third train on an adjacent track. what a mess! look at that! a twist of metal... in chicago and it briefly knocked out power to more than 2500 people, nobody was injured, thankf
chris wallace with that question, to david axelrod, here's what he says. >> he spoke for 45 minutes and never really offered any, any real ideas, for how to move the economy forward, for how to lift the middle class, and, in that sense i think his convention was a terrible failure. ♪ [ male announcer ] extreme environments can cause a spontaneous change in dna, resulting in unexpected power and agility. introducing the all-new, all-powerful gator rsx 850i. sixty-two horsepower, a fully...
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axelrod will say i'm glad mitt put this behind him. this will drag his taxes into the debate. i can't imagine why nay would do this." i know they said they would release the current years or last year's return, they did that showing he pays less than the average guy. he says is one of the victim class who only pays payroll taxes. he pays less, it turns out. why would they tease us with this judge stennis solution, like nixon did in the old days of saying, well, i won't tell you what the taxes i paid were for the last ten or 12 years, but here's a hints of what i claim i paid? why would he do this? >> chris, i'm tempted to say they've had such a bad run that they wanted to get the bad stuff out there right away. but as -- at the end of this week. as alex castellanos pointed out, this won't end the discussion. i think if you look closely at what mitt romney did in his 2011 taxes, as we've done at the "huffington post," you could see he disallowed just enough of the deductions he was going to take for his charitable contributions to inch
axelrod will say i'm glad mitt put this behind him. this will drag his taxes into the debate. i can't imagine why nay would do this." i know they said they would release the current years or last year's return, they did that showing he pays less than the average guy. he says is one of the victim class who only pays payroll taxes. he pays less, it turns out. why would they tease us with this judge stennis solution, like nixon did in the old days of saying, well, i won't tell you what the...
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i can't believe david axelrod will say he mutt it behind him and it will drag his taxes right back into the debate. i can't imagine why they would do this. howard, why would they do? i know they said they'll release the current years and did that showing he pace less than the average guy who says is one of the vic class who only pays payroll taxes and pays less, it turns out. why would they judge us with the judge stennis solution as nixon did, i won't tell you the taxes i paid for but here's a little hint, hint of what i claim i paid. why would he do this? >> chris, i'm tempted to say they've had such a bad run they wanted to get all the bad stuff out there right away. but at the end of the week but as little lex pointed out it won't end the discussion. if you look closely at what mitt romney did in his 2011 taxes as we've done at "the huffington post" he disallowed enough of the deductions to inch it over to 14% and no more. if we calculated that the white house is worth 200,000 to him because that's what he paid to get it over 14% and then, of course, in tax law he can claim those de
i can't believe david axelrod will say he mutt it behind him and it will drag his taxes right back into the debate. i can't imagine why they would do this. howard, why would they do? i know they said they'll release the current years and did that showing he pace less than the average guy who says is one of the vic class who only pays payroll taxes and pays less, it turns out. why would they judge us with the judge stennis solution as nixon did, i won't tell you the taxes i paid for but here's a...
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>> if david axelrod and the president have their way, for sure. that is a -- >> romney can talk about values that were what made america great and that resonates with people and that's looking back to appreciate those values. >> there is no question. but what is at issue is, i think, a sense of being modern and being part of the times in which we live. >> right. >> and i think it's also a sense of, how we're going to deal with the choices the country faces. now don't get me wrong, my biggest concern for the country right now is neither of these well-meaning, smart politicians is laying the groundwork to deal with the fiscal cliff and the big challenges we're going to face in january. >> rose: an talk about it in a political campaign. >> i mean, i hope we can at least in the debates but we certainly aren't now. we didn't in tampa. we're not going to here in any meaningful way. but, there's a way in which the obama campaign wants to talk about mitt romney, which is that he will take us back. and that values are about who pays more in taxes, whose pr
>> if david axelrod and the president have their way, for sure. that is a -- >> romney can talk about values that were what made america great and that resonates with people and that's looking back to appreciate those values. >> there is no question. but what is at issue is, i think, a sense of being modern and being part of the times in which we live. >> right. >> and i think it's also a sense of, how we're going to deal with the choices the country faces. now...
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you have david axelrod this morning saying actually -- let's hear what david axelrod had to say. >> it was a priority, savannah. i was in a room in 2009 at the white house where he called together all of those members of congress who supported immigration reform in the past, republicans and democrats, and said let's lock arms and get this done and every single republican walked -- every single republican walked away because it became the policy of the republican party, to walk away from immigration reform. >> josh, go ahead. >> there were elements within the democratic party, senator chuck schumer, who wanted to lead with immigration, do this, thought it was an issue that wins for them. remember also, george w. bush tried to do this and it failed in the senate, blocked by republicans. i don't know how plausible it would be to think that obama could have pulled it off. maybe he could have, come at the cost of health care, but the idea that it's this sort of obvious thing he should have and could have done i don't really buy. >> i think that it's a choice, right? it was one or the other.
you have david axelrod this morning saying actually -- let's hear what david axelrod had to say. >> it was a priority, savannah. i was in a room in 2009 at the white house where he called together all of those members of congress who supported immigration reform in the past, republicans and democrats, and said let's lock arms and get this done and every single republican walked -- every single republican walked away because it became the policy of the republican party, to walk away from...
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and obama campaign senior strategy david axelrod wrote, and i quote . . . for more on the expectations gain i'm joined by brent brent coburn. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> eliot: the expectation game, could we agree for the moment they are both really smart guys and we're hopefully going to have a good debate about substance. >> that's our hope. the debates a great opportunity for the american people tune in and the candidates tell their stories. that's what we plan to do. we hope the romney campaign comes prepared to do the same thing. beside his technical -- technical skills as a debater, we hope he finally comes to the table with some details. >> eliot: i think the american public and my perspective in all of this is no mystery, i share that there has been no specificity, the week there was supposed to be specificity it was swept away with the 47% comments. what would you ask him? >> how are you going to pay for these $5 trillion in tax cuts which are weighted mostly toward the richest people in the country. we just want an honest an
and obama campaign senior strategy david axelrod wrote, and i quote . . . for more on the expectations gain i'm joined by brent brent coburn. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> eliot: the expectation game, could we agree for the moment they are both really smart guys and we're hopefully going to have a good debate about substance. >> that's our hope. the debates a great opportunity for the american people tune in and the candidates tell their stories. that's...
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. >> eliot: david axelrod put it best on the "today" show. >> the fact that romney picked up on it and attacked him on it shows he's cascading from one attack to another. >> eliot: the attacks are falling flat, listen to the response that paul ryan got from the aarp conference when he attacked the affordable care act act. >> the first step to a stronger medicare is to repeal obama-care. [ booing ] >> because it represents the worse of both worlds. i had a feeling there would be mixed reaction, so let me get into it. it weakens care for today's seniors and puts it at risk for the next generation. >> eliot: he brought his retired mother with him. don't do that to your mom. next time leave her at home rather than subject her seeing her son get booed. and now the cash funds. while romney can draw on $42 million in a joint account with the republican national committee, that money has to be shared with other candidates. even so, like a ceo romney handed out bonuses to his top managers includes 37,000 to political director. $25,000 to campaign manager and $10,000 to two senior staffers after
. >> eliot: david axelrod put it best on the "today" show. >> the fact that romney picked up on it and attacked him on it shows he's cascading from one attack to another. >> eliot: the attacks are falling flat, listen to the response that paul ryan got from the aarp conference when he attacked the affordable care act act. >> the first step to a stronger medicare is to repeal obama-care. [ booing ] >> because it represents the worse of both worlds. i had a...
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today the president's top campaign strategist, david axelrod, went after governor romney, as well as one of the governor's biggest supporters. in a tweet axelrod wrote, yowza, aidleton bets big on romney and under mitt's tax scheme the casino mogul would walk off with a $2 billion pot. now, axelrod was talking about this man, a man "forbes" magazine lists as america's 7th wealthiest worth an estimated by them, $25 billion. and the tweet linked to a report that claims the casino mogul would have saved more than $2 billion in taxes under a republican white house. but the romney campaign pushed back immediately, reporting in a statement, quote, today governor romney is focused on remembering those who lost their lives on 9-11, as well as recognizing the brave work done by our first responders and troops. not on launching petty political attacks. carl cameron is live in st. johns county in fellow that where governor romney is holding an event tomorrow. this is a tall order for campaigners. how effective were they in avoiding politics today? >> they gave it a good try. when you're eight w
today the president's top campaign strategist, david axelrod, went after governor romney, as well as one of the governor's biggest supporters. in a tweet axelrod wrote, yowza, aidleton bets big on romney and under mitt's tax scheme the casino mogul would walk off with a $2 billion pot. now, axelrod was talking about this man, a man "forbes" magazine lists as america's 7th wealthiest worth an estimated by them, $25 billion. and the tweet linked to a report that claims the casino mogul...